This section is a collection of articles covering various topics related to the Swing text package. The articles are written by the Swing Team members who created and are continuing to improve the Swing Text API.

CURRENT ARTICLES

The Swing Text Package: A broad overview of the JFCTM/Swing Text API written by its author, Tim Prinzing.

Concurrency in Swing: This article -- also by text package author Timothy Prinzing -- examines the support of concurrency provided by the text package, and then shows how to perform text layout asynchronous to the GUI event thread in an interactive display.

A Console for Output Streams: Shows how to build a Swing-based text component that displays output streams.

How the Swing Text Package Handles Attributes: How the Swing text package associates attributes -- such as bold, italic, font size, and text color -- with text.

The Element Interface: Explains how the Element interface works and shows how to make use of it in Swing programs.

Understanding the Element Buffer: A closeup look at modeling text in documents.

Tabbing in Text Documents: An overview of how the Swing text package handles tabs.

How to Customize a Text Editor: How to add customized features to the ready-made text-editor kits that are supplied with Swing.